The necessity to establish the reference interval of five indexes of thyroid function in laboratory by age and sex
10.3969/j.issn.1673-4130.2019.04.021
- VernacularTitle:实验室按年龄、性别分组建立甲状腺功能五项指标参考区间的必要性
- Author:
Mingxue WANG
1
;
Biwei YANG
;
Hua ZHANG
Author Information
1. 遵义医科大学
- Keywords:
thyroid hormone;
reference interval;
age;
gender
- From:
International Journal of Laboratory Medicine
2019;40(4):464-468
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Thyroid is an important endocrine organ of the human body for secreting necessary thyroid hormone, which is important to promote the development of human skeleton and nervous system.Thyroid hormone is used to evaluate thyroid function, changing by different race, gender, age, living habits, living area, iodine intake levels and so on.Various laboratory testing instrument and supporting reagents also can affect thyroid hormone reference range.At present, laboratory only sets special thyroid hormone reference interval for pregnant women, and does not set reference interval according to specific age and gender.
